really good and needed discussion.. Vijay ji, Ritesh ji and Manudev ji thanx for your inputs....
regards, On 6/16/11, manudev madhavan <manudevkmadha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to all... > > I am happy that my thread has lead the members to another discussion on > Indian journals. > Let me tell my experience.. > When I had attended few interviews, international papers where > much favored than those papers published in Indian journals there. > Let me tell you that our first priority was "the reachability of the > findings to the scientific community" when we tried to publish these. > Unfortunately none of our Indian taxonomy journals are available online( > except Nelumbo & & Rheedea..!!). > > Also I would like to add.. > I found it difficult to collect those papers published in Indian journals > than foreign journals during my literature survey. Still I am in search for > some papers published in some Indian journals from Bengal Botanical Society. > I couldn't even find a copy of them in CAL too. > when I wrote to the librarian of www.biodiversityheritagelibrary.org about > including Indian journals in their website, she told me that they do not > have much access to Indian Journals.. Anyway, I came to know that, all the > volumes of Rheedea will be available through biodiversityheritagelibrary > soon. > > I hope the scenario will be changed soon.. > > Anyway, Vijay ji, Ritesh ji, am considering an Indian journal for my next > paper, which is under progress..!!! [?][?] > > For those who need the reprints of the paper, please drop me a mail.. > Am out of station now. Will be sending the reprint soon, when I am back to > my lab. > > with warm regards > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Ritesh Choudhary <ritesh....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Dear Vijay Anna! >> >> Little difference of opinion... >> >> I think publishing a new species in some foreign journal with good >> impact factor is not bad. They can be reached more easily to the >> scientific community than those published at the local level. Still >> most of the Indian plant taxonomy journals are not available online. >> You've to face a lot of trouble to find articles published in journals >> like Indian Forester, Indian Journal of Forestry or many more. >> Thankfully, Nelumbo (Bull. Bot. Surv. India) and Rheedea are available >> online for a couple of months but still they cannot be found under the >> SCI Index or other databases like Science Direct or Scopus. And as far >> as the payment to read an article is concerned....even the most >> popular Indian taxonomy journal JETB (J. Econ. Taxon. Bot.) is not >> available freely. >> >> But, yes,, I would be happy if somebody publishes the new >> distributional records or anything related in particular context to >> India to the Indian Journals. >> >> Hope u'll b agree (not angry ;-)) with my points. >> >> Best regards, >> Ritesh. >> > > > > -- > Manudev K Madhavan > Junior Research Fellow > Systematic & Floristic Lab, > Department of Botany, > Centre for Postgraduate Studies & Research > St. Joseph's College, Devagiri > Kozhikode- 673 008 > Mob: 9496470738 > > -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
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